Grand Finals for those teams which have won the first five debates this year were held on Wednesday 20 May 2015 at the G/F Lecture Theatre of the Hong Kong Museum of History in Tsim Sha Tsui and on Thursday 28 May in LT401 at City University of Hong Kong in Kowloon Tong.

Congratulations go to Stewards Pooi Kei College, who beat Shung Tak Catholic English College in the New Territories Grand Final on 20 May.

Congratulations also go to HKMA David Li Kwok Po College, who beat Kwun Tong Maryknoll College in the Kowloon Grand Final and to PLK Laws Foundation College, who beat Ying Wa Girls' School in the Kowloon and New Territories Grand Final.

All teams competed well and provided good examples for the large audiences to learn from.

If you're not currently in a team and would like to be part of the action in the 2016-2017 Term 1 Hong Kong Schools Debating Competition, please get in touch with the Coordinator Stan Dyer on hkssdebating@gmail.com to get signed up.

NT Grand Finals: Stewards Pooi Kei College's Michelle Lo opening her team's case. Michelle went on to win the best speaker award for the debate to show that Hong Kong is doing enough to ensure sustainable development, which her team won.

Kwun Tong Maryknoll College's third speaker Boris Hong giving rebuttals and delivering his team's summary to show why a third runway is needed here

Rebuttals and own team's summary were strongly delivered by HKMA's third speaker Sarneet Saran, who went on to receive the best speaker award and help her team secure a win for negative in the Kowloon Grand Final debate on the third runway.

Kowloon and New Territories Grand Final Debate: Ying Wa Girls' School's first speaker Ann Cheung carefully defining the key terms and laying out her team's case on the motion arguing that recently enhanced immigration measures are key to attracting young talent to Hong Kong in the Kowloon and New Territories Grand Final

Rai Adarsh from PLK Laws Foundation College rebutting and setting up the case to show why new immigration measures are not key to attracting new talent here